I am an Associate Professor at the Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina. My research focuses on the sociology of law, the legal profession and legal education; labor law and the labor movement; and the informal regulation of social practices. I teach in the areas of civil procedure, administrative law, employment law, business organizations, and socio-legal studies. I enjoy Cosmic American Music, fly fishing, slow food, and a good kvetch.
Current Research
Paper Chase 2.0: Law Student Networks and Self-Presentation on Facebook
The Virtual Construction of Legality: Legal Consciousness and Dispute Resolution in Second Life
Educate, Litigate, Organize: Union Lawyers & Their Clients
The Compleat Angler's Code: Tradition, Innovation, and the Folk Law of Fly Fishing
Publications
Liars and Terrorists and Judges, Oh My: Moral Panic and the Symbolic Politics of Appellate Review in Asylum Cases, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 2019 (2008)
Post-Realism, or the Jurisprudential Logic of Late Capitalism: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Rise and Diffusion of Law and Economics, 55 Hastings Law Journal 931 (2004)
Union and Employee Access to Employer E-mail Systems Under Federal Labor Law, with Stuart W. Davidson, in The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology (A. Shostak, ed., 2002)
Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law (P. Hardin, ed., 4th ed. 2001)
Book Note, The Caribbean: New Dynamics in Trade and Political Economy, 28 NYU JILP 644 (1996)
Education
New York University, J.D., 1997
- Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Student in Sociology (ABD), 1987-1992
- Special Fields: Economic Sociology; Sociology of Organizations
London School of Economics, M.Sc. in Sociology, 1985
- Thesis: Policing and Riots in the U.S. and U.K.: A Comparative Assessment of the Kerner and Scarman Reports
Johns Hopkins University, B.A. in Sociology, 1984